NASA proves the Bible to be true.

Was just wondering if anyone else have encountered this stupidity before?Excuse the copy and Pasting exercise....

" What do you think about this;

For all you scientists out there and for all the students who have had a hard time convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible - here's something that illustrates God's awesome creation and shows He is still in control.Did you know that NASA's space programmes are busy proving that what has been called 'myth' in the bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis engine Company in Baltimore , and a consultant in the spaceprogrammes, relates the following incident:"One of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland . They were checking out the positions of the sun, moon and planets out in space where they would be 100, and 1000 years from now. We have to knowthis as we do not want a satellite to collide with any of these in its orbits.We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite and where the planets will be so the whole project will not bog down.Computer measurements and data were run back and forth over the centuries when suddenly it came to a halt, displaying a red signal, which meant that either there was something wrong with the informationfed into it, or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out, and the technicians asked what was wrong.The scientists had discovered that somewhere in space in elapsed time a day was missing.. Nobody seemed able to come up with a solution to the problem.Finally one of the team, a Christian, said: "You know, when I was still in Sunday school, they spoke about the sun standing still."While his colleagues didn't believe him, they did not have an answer either, so they said: "Show us."He got a Bible and opened it at the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with 'common sense'. There they read about the Lord saying to Joshua: "Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not be a man of them stand before thee." (Joshua 10:8).Joshua was concerned because the enemy had surrounded him, and if darkness fell, they would overpower him. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right - "And the sun stood still and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Ja'-sher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day." (Joshua 10:13).The astronauts and scientists said: "There is the missing day!"They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it, but it was not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes - not a whole day. They read the Bible again and there it was: "about (approximately) a day." These little words in the Bible were important, but they were still in trouble, because another 40 minutes were still unaccounted for, and this could mean trouble 1000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be foundbecause it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible which said the sun went backwards. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but once again they opened the Book and read these words in 2 Kings. Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet, Isaiah, who told him he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for some sign as proof. Isaiah said: "Shall the sun go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?"And Hezekiah answered: "It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees; nay, but let the shadow return backwards ten degrees." And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord, and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." (2 Kings 20:9 -11).Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and twenty minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in 2 Kings accounted for the missing day in the universe! Isn't this amazing? Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth!PRAISE GOD!!!!"

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Permalink Reply by Bill on July 26, 2010 at 2:50pm

Even if you had highly accurate astronomical observations from those days which showed the planets to be off by about a day, what is more likely, that the Earth and Sun stood still for a day, or that humans added or removed a day from their calendar? The former event is physically impossible, the later has occurred many times.

Permalink Reply by Bill on July 26, 2010 at 2:46pm

If there were a "missing day" in history, there would be no evidence for it. We would never be able to tell! This is simply another case of the misinformed trying to use science to "prove" the bible.

I love this bit of misinformation: "They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it." What does that even mean?

Permalink Reply by Adrian on July 27, 2010 at 12:13am

Dates are just human constructs, so days do not "go missing". This reminds me of the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendars, when supposedly there were riots across Europe because people thought that the authorities had stolen 12 days of their lives; in those days they believed that God had a book with the date of your death already written in it, so if the calendar jumped forward, then you were suddenly that much closer to death! Crazy!

Permalink Reply by David Thorne on April 5, 2011 at 2:57pm

In Joshua’s day it was not known that the earth was a 10-to-the-24th kilogram sphere rotating on its axis at 15 degrees per hr (360 per 24). If the sun appeared to stop in its path then it was the earth that suddenly stopped rotating. One consequence of that would be that every loose object on the surface would fly off tangentially at roughly a thousand miles per hour. However, before that occurred the loss of angular momentum would release the equivalent of millions of hydrogen bombs, vaporizing the earth’s crust, melting the mantle and fracturing the core. Other cultures around the world, not battling some other small clan, would indeed have noticed it. At least briefly, if not then able to record it.

Permalink Reply by Nathan Hevenstone on May 4, 2011 at 2:05am

If anyone ever sees this again, point the sender over to Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/religion/lostday.asp

Permalink Reply by Jeromy Hyatt on October 12, 2011 at 6:38pm

so i only read to the part where god made the sun stand still and i know i should read the whole thing but we orbit the sun......they must have missed that part

Permalink Reply by Rick on October 12, 2011 at 7:01pm

And of course the scientists would immediately believe anything they found in the bible without further testing. I for one find it more unbelievable that the so-called Christian was able to remember such obscure bible stories considering most of them don’t read it to begin with. I don’t understand what all the excitement is about any way. They were too late. God already revealed himself in breakfast foods long before this event ever took place.

Permalink Reply by Alexander Miner on January 20, 2012 at 3:01am

I kept waiting for it to say, "... and then, Mandark put it on grow again! And his head was big as the wor-- it was the world."

The story is incredibly childish. NASA's last concern is proving the Bible... To the contrary, I think their main focus is figuring out how to save their agency from being shut down.

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